Fueling the FutureSafe, Affordable, Secure Energy

Sean I. Plasynski, Ph.D.Director, Strategic Center for Coal

…Options for Tomorrow

Solutions for Today…

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“All of the Above” Fossil Energy Future

~80% FE Today and Tomorrow…

Dominated by Global Growth

50%Growth

EIA, Annual Energy Outlook 2015; IEA, World Energy Outlook 2014, Current Policy Scenario

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“All of the Above” Carbon Management Strategy

Increase Energy Efficiency

Reduce Carbon Emissions

All Sectors, All Fuels

Lead Global Efforts

EIA Ref Case

Projections

Transportation

Residential

Commercial

IndustrialNatural

Gas

Petroleum Coal

White House, Fact Sheet: U.S. Reports its 2025 Emissions Target to the UNFCCCEIA, Annual Energy Outlook 2015, Monthly Energy Review

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Enduring FE Mission Elements

Effective Resource Development

Efficient Energy Conversion

Environmental Sustainability

Coal Petroleum

Natural Gas

Hydrates

FasterCheaper

Safer

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The National Technology Laboratory

NETL’s mission is to discover, integrate and mature technology solutions to protect the environment and enhance the Nation’s

energy foundation for future generations

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Accelerating Technology

Energy Solutions for Today

Energy Options for Tomorrow

Applied ResearchTRL 2-4

Process Engineering & IntegrationTRL 5–7

Technology DemonstrationTRL 8-9

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The Cost of CCS

Capture73%

Compression11%

Storage13%

Transportation3%

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Driving Down the COE with CCS

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State-of-the-Art 2025 Demo 2030 Demo

Goals are for greenfield plants. Costs are nth-of-a-kind and include compression to 2215 psia, but exclude CO2 transport and storage costs.

Transformational Technology

IGCC orSupercritical PC

2nd Generation Technology

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Successfully Demonstrating CCS

Applied ResearchTRL 2-4

Process Engineering & IntegrationTRL 5–7

Technology DemonstrationTRL 8-9

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Kemper County IGCC ProjectTransport Gasifier w/ Carbon Capture

EOR – ~3.0 MMTPY

Southern Company2016 Start

W.A. Parish Generating StationPost Combustion CO2 Capture

EOR – ~1.4 MMTPY

Petra Nova2017 Start

Commercial Demo of Adv. IGCC w/ Full Carbon Capture; EOR in Permian

Basin

EOR – ~1.84 MMTPY

Summit TX Clean Energy2018 Start

Commercial Demo of AdvancedIGCC w/ Full Carbon Capture

EOR – ~2.6 MMTPY

HECA2020 Start

CO2 Capture from Steam Methane ReformersEOR in Eastern TX Oilfields

EOR – ~0.93 MMTPY1.8 MMT stored as of March 2015

Air Products and Chemicals, IncStarted 2012

CO2 Capture from Ethanol PlantCO2 Stored in Saline Reservoir

SALINE– ~0.9 MMTPY

Archer Daniels Midland2015 Start

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National Carbon Capture Center

Post Combustion

PC4 Facility – 4.3MWe Real PC flue gas Bench through pilot scale ~25,000 hours of testing 15 Technologies tested “Tech-Flexible”

Pre Combustion

6.3MWe Trig gasifier Air- or O2 fired syngas Bench through pilot scale ~20,000 hours of testing 13 gasifier runs “Tech-Flexible”

World Class Carbon Capture Technology Test Facility

Pilot Solvent Test Unit TRIG Gasifier

Applied ResearchTRL 2-4

Process Engineering & IntegrationTRL 5–7

Technology DemonstrationTRL 8-9

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Mitigating Emissions

R&D and scale-up technologies for capturing CO2 from new and existing industrial and power-producing plants

Solvents

Advanced amine at 1MWe slipstream at NCCC

BASF & Linde, LLC

Sorbents

Advanced amine at 1MWe slipstream at Southern

Co.’s Plant Miller

ADA Env. Solutions, LLC

Membranes

Spiral-wound membrane at 1MWe slipstream at NCCC

MTR

CarbonCapture

Applied ResearchTRL 2-4

Process Engineering & IntegrationTRL 5–7

Technology DemonstrationTRL 8-9

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Pipeline of Emerging Technologies

Incubator for disruptive technologies exhibiting a step change in material and process performance

CarbonCapture

Applied ResearchTRL 2-4

Process Engineering & IntegrationTRL 5–7

Technology DemonstrationTRL 8-9

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Novel solvent

H2O

ConventionalSolvent

(selexol)

Changes in processconditions results

in CO2-release

Similar CO2Capacity

Core-shell MOFsAtomically Engineered Composites

Phase-Change Materials Micro-encapsulated Sorbents

Hydrophobic Solvents

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Enabling Rapid Deployment

Develop

Demonstrate

Deploy

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We Need to Do This Together….

• Provide Global Leadership

• More Demonstrations

• Push to Test in Real Environments

• Develop Transformational Materials & Processes

• Develop & Implement Tools Enabling Faster Maturation

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Solutions for Today…Options for Tomorrow